. THE ROAD TO QUITO. TRAVELING ACROSS THE BREAST OF | ! KINGLY CHIMBORAZO, J A Dargerou Difienlt Trail. Fpssing “a > Thraigh Hse 5 of 7 Gels Known to Man ~The Thibet of the Now World. 'r [Ecuador Cor, Inter Ocean.) All roads may have led to Rome, but no roads lead to Quite. Andes, a dangerous, difficult trail, requir. Ing nine days to cross during the dry sea son, but impassable during the winter, or | but the mail | rainy season, when carriers attempt it, lots” afoot. to Paris in less time, at with infinitely Guayaquil, the Lo one and they “cut across less expense, more comfort, scuport of | cuador, to Quito the capitai, a dis tance of only 160 miles You go up the river Guayas about thirty miles on a litt e steamer built at Paltimore to a place called Bodegas, ard there you get a mule —at least you try to get one. gio t mes the animals ean not be hired They cun only be secured by purchase, and then ouly very poor ones, who look us if they would not live to see the end of the ‘outs Le But the South American mule is better than he looks, and the man who despises him is guilty of an act of ine ustice. In a Ling where the iron horse Hoes not snort. aud shriek the mule is the +i substitute “It you go to Quite you must always furnish your own saddle. but a piece of rope will do very well to guide your ani- mal by. He will need no curb to restrain him. Then one bas to take his own bed. ding—a hammock is the best thing—his own blankets, and a pillow if he can not usc a saddle as a substitute. It usually ig two or three days to make prep arations, for although feo ple have been going over this road for 350 years, it takes ws much time, and as ‘much fussing to start a traveler to day as it did to get the 1st man who went launched on the journey. Hut you nine finally get started, avd spend days'as miserably as they without # decent place to sleep, or a pa‘atabie morsel to eat, and a pict poverty, ignorance, squalor, and degrada tion awa 8 before you, but set in grandest frame that the Alm ever created. The old hyma place “where every prospe only man is vile.” Ths dor The road passes over tl Chimborazo, at an altitude feet where although « equator, the frozen wind on iraveiers who have often Deen ried over icy precipices by the ul blast. C( uito itself in the t mountains at au altitu 2,000 feet a'ove the Hos t. Bernard in the Al Ips. the highest city on t re else can be seen sud of towering mountains, presid the Kingly Chimborazo, whose untrodden summit 1s a mile higher than Pog petl. and nearly two miles hi taliest peak in the United States No where does nature affect one more deeply with a feeling of her grandeur; no where does she exhibit more startling freaks, or wilder contrasts, and no where within the same distance can be found variety of both animal and vegetab if This path to Quito passes through every variety of climate known to man from the murky, miasmatic tropics, where the crocodile is king. and rain falls incessantly, over a rainless desert into the zone of wheat and corn. From rises 10 a region worthless except for attle ranges, and finally ascends into the realm of the ice king, whose power even the tropical sun can not dispute, and whose only animate subject is the condor, with a tight surpassing any other lLird a valley from which no table land between the two Andean chains, the Thibet of the New World, with an area four times as larg: the state of New York. and a history as old as Moses At one valley Potosi is perched city in the world: at the other stands Cu-co, the golden capital strange empire, which, thou by It arro in its budding civilization, and fabulous magoificence, will rank as the most extraordinary and extensive com munity in the aspals of history were unnumbered millions of people with a patriarchal government, having no aw but the will of 8a Inca, and famili vith all the arts but those of war Twenty volcanos, and more than fifty mountain peaks over 10,000 feet high ompose the sublime congregation that It strate the omnipotence of their Cre ator in the valley of Quito Here all the mountain chains of South Amer ca culminate in one diz'y procession as if the Cordilleras had gathered around the Inca capital an army of their grandest giants. One sierra bends off to the cast, holds in its lap the ancient city of Bogota, rolls off 1.000 streams to form pe Crinoco and terminates in the beaut mountains of ( aracas \nother to the Pacific, whose incessant bil ws wash its feet, and humbling itself en it cross isthinus, spreads and the Cordilleras of ky mount spent ghty Hand 1 speaks of ig HY under the Sweeps down Sls op of Wi hile it e globe, no iia As the highest ' $ the forming wWhoan pin chains h mi } ore ow of snow in Alaska into the sea at'the land he lefined par exhausts uego llow a and han of ntil well ¢ 1" HOA ot hs ¥ y Chimbe, ” the King of the Andes forbidden man to study him. Three usand feet of impassable snow. cling to scone of granite whos 0 steep to be climbed even with wlders, prevent the summit reached. There is a legend th was ouce half a milk higher than now Cm one of his sides stands a massive rock, perhars the large of granite in the world, which is called the Incas head lhe Indian traditions say that this nee the « Has sides are sealing I piece was himborazo, and fell the day Atabaulpa, the was s'rangled by + 2 fry might asceria'n on. hut the rest of last of the In irro the of 1) ft:00 ¢ Cn summit we pe lied only through ti telewcopa vest climber bas only reached an 190,500 feet K can Not Open te Conviet Hobs 1 men have tuiesood in un Hong, and registered them as nue rds in thelr mind, It % no to spesk Inte ligibly to iis than to write legibly on a sper already serilbled over, once ne teed] rece possible i yer's Iden Clayios inted the pi ined ple that “a reporter should gel ail the news he can and give it to the world, a lawyer should get all the pad kaon 1 to hii JES La1] be apy There is a mule | path from the port of Guayaquil over the | Gne can go from New York | and | than from | ¢ of | there it Here is | walter can flow, a | gigantic | end of this | of a gh crushed | = B: } ar | Mexi oo, | third | from being | it Chimbo | that it | truth of this | but | iS N Aw — \ A AN Jsteineanacoecsiy SS CARI, Wii AMARARCE AT AALARARAALA a I) n anni gad Wo think we have the most beautiful cages for the money ever congo, bird seed, gravel, cuttle Lone, bath cups, springs, STO PP And look at, and price our an. “BIRD CAGES SS ba = SANE 1.0 10k "JIA WI MOY ei yg wmided Frevght [to tewn, We keep cuttle bone holders, snd manne st gd — breeding PAINTING, | 20 Years in the Business, TAKE NOTICE. Gentle Spang In coming and with It comes house cleaning. With hous .cleaning come x demand for WALL P, APLER ~-AN Fixing up and ion fying Walls, Ceil- ings, sw» Wood- work, Fancy Paper on Ceilings is fast super- ceeding Fresco work and Kalsomine, In view of the above important fact we are glad to announce 10 the people of this vi- cinity that we have in our employ two first-class PAPER HANGERS and a corps of the best PAINTERS 10 be touna in Peano besides these Hent | workmen, have in stock Inrgest | and best selected line of | exXen wi the WALL PAPER ~—AND— Ceiling Decorations | Ever brought to Bellefonte. We have | sample books of hand-made, embossed GOLD PAPER, that we can get on three day's notice. Our twenty busines should years’ experience in the convines nll that we are { | able to make good our statements. Burs sh House Block Bellefonte, Pa. Telephone Connection. cut This the | the lowest Burial Vaults, represents prices, a vorkman BM Designs constantly on hand to select from. Tu- E bular Galvinized Iron Railing, and wrought iron == fencing for Cemetery lots; also Marleized Slate, Mantles, Hearths, ete. Satisfaction guaranteed | "in every respect, or we ask no remittance, Give ‘us a call before buying elsewhere. 3S. A. STOVER, Bellefonte, Pa. gher than the | CHINA HALL REMOVAL. W. H. WILKINSON, Wanamaker, has removed to store room In Centre County Bank Building. Constantly in a fi ll stock a:8oris ment of China, Granite, 6, 6, llow-ware, and Table Glass, AT LOWEST City Prices. «ft ' STORE ently opened a store Harper& ( | A Agent for John Here | NOVELTY I hav in the ust re rooms adjoining | store on Spring stree { A full line of Novelties and Fancy Goods Consisting of almost everything in the line of TOYS, FANCY ARTICLES, | VASES, ALBUMS, SILVERWARE, onsisting of Castors, Butter Dishes, ete. Glass and China Ware, Clocks, Jewelry, Handsome Steel Engravings, Panel Pictures, Paintin Dg and Picture Frames OF ALL STYLES AND RIZES, ‘ome in and and examine the articles on our FIVE-CENT COUNTER, | and examine my wto k, | will warrant a share of your patron: tespectfully, Alp a Corman, than at anything eles hy tak ine ager y for the host seliing book out : § grandly Nowe fall Terms | Hay) Portiend Mal ae age, two horw Wagon | Queen top buggies, our | { ton bu gy. lwo platfe rm Fall new and first clas or { prices and | than Jleptio spring ring wagons, sale at low terms Haunts, : [ixtraordinary IRON-STONE CHINA \ND TABLE GLASSWARE. W, B, WIVKINSON, act. Dealer in CHINA, GLASS, Queensware, LLEGHANY STREET, ' Bellefonte, Pa. Is seiling ALL KINDS of Crockery and Table Glarsware st LOWER prices than ever known in Bellefonte, as the following list will show Heat ality, Iron Stone t Lo craze Tea Sets (68 Dinner § D iner plates Tea P Tureens—round or oval ] Sauce dishes » jeces) alos —lurgest size medium ales Sauce Tureens Sauce boats Cups and Fru Chamber sels Pitcher and Basin Covered chamber TABLE GLASSW ARE. Fumblers, each, de (ioblets, ‘ t Rav Cake st rin Ne pe ; Full Stock of Decorated ind Chamber Sets ost English ware. n Blue, | L FRLICETS We ’e 4% Dinner B fen Sols lack, Brown or Pies £5.00 Feguinar price Full assortment in Ma Goods, eo, Majoliosn Pitchers, 200: height 10 inches, #1 thing else pay desire this adve 0), and every in proportion, every reader 0 your ewgiom, Ist us che Ap tO say to cement { want and in reaching out for itl am fully pre { your I If] do ne People are cordially invited to eall | which I trust | 5 : | | ony Desi HELP: BY } Sum pared to gixe you the (iy yet vtest value for obtained, Call and examine the goods and the price fulfill strictly all I claim as to prices being LOWER than ever be fore heard, 1 donot ask your patronage Fhe greater amount of goods | can sell the lower prices and WILL BE MADE, money once can Respectfully, Rd W. H WILKIN goods that will money in a fon Mays thin ¥ hnnght posail : : at heme and wor time. Allof i nts to 8 bis unparalleled offer nd #1 4 S A STOVER’S | MARBLE SHOP, where you can buy at | the VERY BEST kind of | Marble or Granite Monuments, Head-Stones and | , Hundreds of the latest and finest eat any business, | berths penes | easily | fuho want work mny | | | and atk all to drop in i i fg part pr We thank our bafzons for past favors | al i 46 1G 1 STREET, and examine our goods If they gi their orders we will to d mpi y Hoping to bave & boom soon Yours tru ¥, ve uy! { endesvor o our! We remain, i ~AT THE — Job Office ‘Williams \ Bro. And Have YourJob DEALERS Books chool Su Shad and Stationary, Window / ures, Wall Paper, SN wil re Vl £y vd Fi 4 ele LIVE CANVASSERS Hearthstone, Farm & Nation the Cloanest, Handeomest, Purest thie tants ein of | KET MAN 1 4, and the great bs | American Home and Farm | 404 Arch Street i slthe ! Use Repairing done with neatness an £ natn ion by mall str complete, Cy clope dia. e attent the Write at FV. H. THOMPSON & Co. Publi phis, Pa. 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